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Chapter 1The land lay empty around them, lonely and still. On their right a ridge of hills with scattered cedars, on their left an open plain sweeping to a far horizon that offered a purple hint of hills. In all that vastness there was nothing but the creak and groan of the wagon, and overhead the sky, brassy with sunlight."It's only a couple of miles now," Jacob told her. "Just around that point of rocks." He pointed with his Chapter 1The land lay empty around them, lonely and still. On their right a ridge of hills with scattered cedars, on their left an open plain sweeping to a far horizon that offered a purple hint of hills. In all that vastness there was nothing but the creak and groan of the wagon, and overhead the sky, brassy with sunlight."It's only a couple of miles now," Jacob told her. "Just around that point of rocks." He pointed with his whipstock. She felt her heart shriveling within her. "It's awfully dry, isn't it?"It's dry," Jacob's tone was abrupt. "It's been a bad year."The team plodded, heads bobbing with weariness. The last town was fifty miles behind them, the last ranch almost as far. In all that distance they had seen not a ranch, a claim shack, or a fence. not a horse, a cow, or even a track. At last he said, "I did not promise you much, and it is not much, but the land is ours, and what the land becomes will be ours, too. The land is not only what it is, it is what we make it."The heavy wagon rumbled on, endlessly, monotonously. The heat was stifling, their pace so slow they could not escape the dust. It settled over their clothing, their eyebrows, in the folds of their skin. The children, weary with the heat, had fallen asleep, and for that she was thankful. The wagon reached the point of rocks, bumped over a flat rock, then rounded the point. Her heart sank. Before them, and close under the shoulder of a hill, was a cabin, a solitary building, square and bare, without shed or corral, withoutshrubs, without a tree."There it is!" There was pride in Jacob's tone. "There's our house, Evie."She knew how he felt, for in the three years of their life together she had learned this about him: that he had never known a home, had EBooks, Books~~Fiction~~Westerns, Conagher~~Louis-LAmour, 48370, Conagher, Louis L'Amour, 0553899031, Random House Publishing Group, , , , , Random House Publishing Group

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As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn`t be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn`t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher`s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn`t going to be easy. Conagher: As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn`t be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn`t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher`s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn`t going to be easy. FICTION / Action & Adventure FICTION / Historical FICTION / Westerns, Random House Publishing Group

As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn`t be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live.Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn`t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher`s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn`t going to be easy.From the Paperback edition. Conagher: As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn`t be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live.Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn`t about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated canyons for missing cattle, he found notes tied to tumbleweeds rolling with the wind. The bleak, spare words echoed Conagher`s own whispered prayers for companionship. Who was this mysterious woman on the other side of the wind For Conagher, staying alive long enough to find her wasn`t going to be easy.From the Paperback edition., Random House Publishing Group

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